The invention relates to a method for computer-implemented monitoring of a wind
turbine having a rotor with rotor blades (10). The rotor blades (10) are provided with an active flow control device (11D, 12D, 14D). During the operation of the wind
turbine the following steps are performed: i) obtaining digital operation data (OD) of the wind
turbine, the operation data (OD) being
current sensor data (WTSD) taken by a plurality of sensors installed on the wind turbine and a
control signal (AFCD CS) for controlling the active flow control device (11D, 12D, 14D) to adopt a specific state; ii) determining an estimate (ECLI) of the state and / or performance degradation of the active flow control device (11D, 12D, 14D) by
processing the operation data (OD) by a trained
data driven model (DDM), where the operation data (OD) are fed as a
digital input to the trained
data driven model (DDM) and the trained
data driven model (DDM) provides the estimate (ECLI) of the state and / or performance degradation of the active flow control device (11D, 12D, 14D) as a digital output.